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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
    In referring to People of The Book includes the following. I think "Mormons are considered a sect of Christianity."

    Abrahamic religions (also Semitic religions) are monotheistic religions of West Asian[1] origin, emphasizing and tracing their common origin to Abraham[2] or recognizing a spiritual tradition identified with him.[3][4][5] They comprise one of the major divisions in comparative religion, along with Indian[6] and East Asian religions.[6]

    As of the early 21st century, it was estimated that 54% of the world's population (3.8 billion people) considered themselves adherents of the Abrahamic religions, about 30% of other religions, and 16% of no organized religion.[7][8]

    The largest Abrahamic religions in chronological order of founding are Judaism (1st millennium BC), Christianity (1st century AD), Islam (7th century AD) and the Bahá'í Faith (19th century AD).[9]

    Abrahamic religions with fewer adherents include:

    The Rastafari movement[10]
    Samaritanism[11]
    Druzism[12]
    Mandaeism[13]
    the Bábí Faith[14]

    Predating many of these is Zorasterism a monotheistic fore runner about 3500 BC

    source was wikpedia.

    The Druze of the the Christian faith and Bahai o are two of the groups along with others of Islamic faith under attack by ISIS. There are 73 separate sects of the Islamic religion. Shiite and Sunni are the largest
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  • Posted by ChuckyBob 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Understand that when the individual books of the bible were written each was an individual book, or letter. There was no original intent to compile them into a tome. So, the verse you refer to only applies to the book of revelations. Also, the placing of Revelations at the end is more of a happenstance than divine design. While compiling the New Testament the books were placed by category, not in chronological order. Revelations was not the last book written. All that being said, I disagree that God has been silent. I believe in modern scripture and continuing revelation. As stated in Amos 3:7 "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I checked and it's not available at amazon, B&N, and other fine book stores except in the coffee table version.


    The coffee table version has all blank pages and is meant to fool your friends.

    Look for it almost nowhere. Limited edition printing sent to .....1400 Pennsylvania Ave Wash DC

    I didn't get the address wrong whoever ordered it probably didn't want it known.

    (for the geographically challenged the right address is 1500)
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and once again after that. I had focused on the Christian version when i read the title of the post. My mistake. The last one in linear development was Ba'hai as I recall in the late 1800 or early 1900s?
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  • Posted by hattrup 9 years, 7 months ago
    I think it has actually been only about 1,350 years
    since the sequel came out around 630 AD -
    aka Quran (God via "the Angel Gabriel" via Muhammad).
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  • Posted by hattrup 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was updated from 609 to 632 A.D. via further
    "revelations from God" by the prophet Muhammad
    (aka Quran).
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am aware that this is not your PhD thesis but, if I may make a few suggestions.
    #2 It was in Aramaic.
    #4 It was serialized.
    #5 He dictated it.
    #7 Scientists, scholars, shamans and politicians keep trying.
    #9 Simple & efficient.
    #10 Ditto.
    #13 They studied a different subject.
    #14 So, later he came up with over 100 more. He seems to be pleased by roasting oxen.
    #15 He thinks he owns the building.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    You must remember that when Moses the former prince and current sheepherder encountered Yaweh the Volcano god, he was bored after 20 years of herding smelly animals. So when Yaweh dictated the book to him he was rarin' to go and see what trouble he could get into in Egypt. He used only one person to write the first five books (more was written later by "inspired writers"). Later, when recording the exploits of his son, the deity had a fairly large number of people write it all up, but it was censored and edited down to just a few books, which I think pissed him off, which is why he has refrained from any more books. He's probably still pouting since time means a whole lot less to him than to us.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't have any idea what you mean by mysticism. I am not an atheist if that is what you are asking.
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  • Posted by DavidKelley 9 years, 7 months ago
    Here's another one in the same vein:

    Why God Never Received a Ph.D.
    1. He had only one major publication.
    2. It was in Hebrew.
    3. It had no references.
    4. It wasn’t published in a refereed journal.
    5. Some even doubt that He wrote it by Himself.
    6. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
    7. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating His results.
    8. He never applied to the ethics board for permission to use His human subjects.
    9. When one experiment went awry, He tried to cover it by drowning His subjects.
    10. When subjects didn’t behave as expected, He deleted them from the sample.
    11. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.
    12. Some say He has his son teach the class.
    13. He expelled the first two students for learning.
    14. Although there were only ten requirements, most of his students failed his tests.
    15. His office hours were infrequent.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 7 months ago
    The Bible was cherry picked by a collection of people aka "holy men."
    They had a lot of material to chose from.

    https://carm.org/lost-books

    Long time ago I read some of those so-called lost books.
    I vaguely recall one about Adam and Eve being so silly I could see why it was rejected.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 7 months ago
    I beg to differ as to "no other author not being an influence"; i gues he never read Ayn Rand. The difference between the two is that the bible is mysticism and Any Rand's writings are reality.
    So maybe it's a good thing nothing more has come forth for 2000 years. We already have to many mystics.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hee all this time I thought it was comment on ...oh wait a moment People of the Book. Guess it does includes Muslims.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, He didn't write them. Those Books were revealed to Him, and a Ghost writer written them down under dictation.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 7 months ago
    Or maybe He has and people don't want to know about it because it would challenge all their traditions and institutions.
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a pretty funny article, but in terms of being offended, do you ever sit there and wonder when, exactly, that we lost our sense of humor?

    I've always felt that the glue that held us together as Americans (and by extension, American Exceptionalism) was rooted in nothing more than our collective ability as a people to simply laugh at ourselves. I don't think I've ever seen this trait so widespread anywhere else in the world. But we seem to have devolved into the Land of the Perpetually Offended.

    ~Sigh~

    I miss America.
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